mergeto eMusic Discuss Talk eMusic date January 2010 Cductive was a pioneering online music store founded in 1996 by Thomas V. Ryan , John Rigos, and Alan Manuel. It sold 99 cent mp3 downloads and custom CD compilations from a selection of several hundred independent record label s ref Citation first W. Michael last Cox first2 Richard last2 Alm title The Right Stuff America s Move to Mass Customization contribution url series Policy Report No. 225 date June 1999 ISBN 1 56808 048 4 page 8 place Dallas, Texas publisher National Center for Policy Analysis url http www.ncpa.org pdfs st225.pdf quote Music buffs who wanted to hear their favorite songs once had to buy dozens of compact discs. Now, CDuctive, a New York company, maintains an Internet site with sound bites from about 10,000 titles. Customers select a dozen cuts to be burned onto a CD and shipped to their door. ref . In December 1999, the company was acquired by main rival eMusic ref Cite news title EMusic.com Completes Acquisition of Cductive.com. newspaper PR Newswire date 13 December 1999 quote EMusic.com Inc. Nasdaq EMUS , the Internet s leading seller of downloadable music, today announced the completion of its acquisition of privately held Cductive.com. ref and most of Cductive s artists and labels are still available via the eMusic service. References Reflist Category Online music stores Category Companies established in 1996 ... more details
Merge from Cductive Discuss Talk eMusic date January 2010 lowercase Infobox Online music service service name eMusic service logo Image eMusic logo.png service screenshot opened January, 1998 pricing 30 day subscription platforms MP3s downloadable in any platform open source clients available for Microsoft Windows , Mac OS X and Linux format MP3 .mp3 restrictions None catalogue 6,000,000 tracks, 7,000 audiobooks preview 30 seconds streaming m3u trial 7 days music, 14 days audiobooks, http www.emusic.com protocol Hypertext Transfer Protocol http availability United States , Canada , Europe , United Kingdom features Booster packs support homepage http www.emusic.com www.emusic.com alexa decrease 6,354 as of 2012 1 2 alt January 2012 ref name alexa cite web url http www.alexa.com siteinfo emusic.com title Emusic.com Site Info publisher Alexa Internet accessdate 2012 01 02 ref Updated monthly by OKBot. footnotes No footnotes date August 2010 eMusic is an Online music store online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription . It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. ref http www.emusic.com about index.html ref As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers. eMusic was one of the first sites to sell music in the MP3 format, beginning in 1998. It differs from other well known music download services such as the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 in that it is a download to own subscription service. While lauded by the general public, its early support of the MP3 format, lack of digital rights management DRM encoding and low price model &mdash all concepts advocated by the Open Music Model &mdash made the service unappealing to the World music market Big Four record labels until recently. Prior to July 2009, eMusic sold only music from independent labels. eMusic was the first digital retailer to sell DRM ... IUMA . In November 1999, eMusic acquired main rival Cductive ref cite web title eMusic.com to Acquire ... more details
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